LE MANS, France – Kamui Kobayashi gave Toyota Gazoo Racing its fourth-straight pole for the 24 Hours of Le Mans on Friday at Circuit de la Sarthe. “I am really happy to be on pole position again,” Kobayashi said. On the second one I pushed to the maximum but unfortunately I had to abandon the lap. It had been a quick lap up until then; I was trying to break my record and it was close. 22 United Autosports Oreca on the class pole with a class record lap of 3:24.528. The GTE Pro class pole went to Porsche and Gianmaria Bruni, who topped the class charts with at 3:50.874.

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